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7 - Neighborhood Governance during China’s COVID Lockdowns

from Part III - Benefits and Risks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2024

Shitong Qiao
Shitong Qiao
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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Summary

This chapter, the result of extensive fieldwork primarily focusing on Shanghai and Wuhan, where the most significant lockdowns occurred, uncovers the unexamined role of Chinese homeowners and their associations in monitoring and resisting the party-state’s encroachments on individual rights during the COVID pandemic, a phenomenon I term “cooperating to resist.” This chapter demonstrates that the cooperation of Chinese homeowners, which was indispensable to the party-state’s ability to maintain its pandemic control measures, brought them the power to mobilize, resist, and contribute to an abrupt ending of China’s lockdown policy which the party-state’s top leadership had attached its legitimacy to.

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the limits of the stateillegibilityurban grid management (网格化管理)the health code system (健康码)agency costlegal mobilizationlegal resistance
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The Authoritarian Commons
Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
 , pp. 99 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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